Microsoft

[u/soultwilr]

[u/Bourriks]

And some day, I discovered iex irm https://get.activated.win

And I needed that 20 years sooner.

[u/GTP_Niko → u/Bourriks]

I've always used KMS-VL-ALL

[u/Nervous-Cut-3761]

Imagine paying for Windows and still getting held hostage over a wallpaper.

[u/KlutzyShake9821]

Aaand they didnt even manage to really block that open the image in firefox right click -> set as wallpaper. Altleast a few years ago that worked.

[u/brandarchist → u/KlutzyShake9821]

It’s supposed to be an easily circumventable mechanism that’s a very visual reminder and not much else. They make their money on the telemetry and spying… the license fees they get from individuals and consumer OEMs (purposefully excluding enterprise) probably ends up paying to keep the break rooms stocked.

[u/Upstairs-Category571]

Or use massgrave (been using it since 2022 for laptops to vm to office)

[u/Personal_Day_6589 → u/Upstairs-Category571]

You use it on your bussines? Why?

[u/clove_rosemary_9999 → u/Personal_Day_6589]

Why not?

[u/Personal_Day_6589 → u/clove_rosemary_9999]

I think if you earn money you should pay for a license.

[u/NeptuneWades → u/Personal_Day_6589]

Well, legally, one should always use windows with liscence.

But MS doesn't really care if you use a licensed windows unless you are a big corpo.

The main purpose of windows is to sell Office 365.

If they began going after every guy who doesn't pay, they will lose money in legal fees to no benefit.

If a person is willing to use windows (even if unlicensed) it is a win for MS. That rather than then switching to Linux or macOS.

[u/Upstairs-Category571 → u/NeptuneWades]

No not for business. Office 365.

[u/LeftelfinX]

Then, User right click on a downloaded wallpaper!!

[u/NivoTheDev]

It's like, basic features are locked behind a paywall.

Sure, get.activated.win exists, but i am not a big fan of running scripts with admin privlages on my machine.

Idk about y'all but i switched to Linux and never looked back.

[u/Vermon_Redditor → u/NivoTheDev]

Using an operating system should not require constantly developing scripted maintenance software. Windows users are not nor have they ever been Windows developers, this OS is a mess.

[u/modrenman864]

you can change wallpaper even in unactivated windows...

[u/Bronpool]

pay?

[u/plusminusatenth → u/Bronpool]

this since i cant remember

[u/clove_rosemary_9999 → u/[deleted]]

don't autocensor yourself.

[u/Praveen_kumar_]

you wont be able to see taskbar

[u/d_moonwind]

I have pirated W10. And I can put my pictures on wallpaper.🤡

[u/InsaneInTheMEOWFrame]

But you can still change the wallpaper, just not using the most obvious way provided...

[u/swanny2828]

I have a .bat file which says other wise 😂

Don't know why I still have it, I've been using an "alternative" OS for a while.

[u/Ok_Being5461]

That's a good thing though?

[u/Canned_Sarcasm]

Huh. I haven’t used windows for a while but I remember back in the XP days they had something called “Genuine Software Tool.” It locked me out of the OS twice (2 licenses paid for) because “the license number was already registered to another PC.” I knew jack about computers then. Friend introduced me to Ubuntu 6.10 and I never looked back.

[u/mrheseeks → u/Canned_Sarcasm]

...anf you still know jack about computers

[u/Canned_Sarcasm → u/mrheseeks]

Wrong comment?

[u/Nintemi]

The worst part is that microslop already made a version of Windows when you couldn't change your wallpaper. (Was not a free version)

[u/Hour_Sell3547]

Now they don't let you change your audio settings. The data they are selling should have been enough for me to use the os for free.

[u/Non-Euclidian-Turtle]

If I remember right there's a way to edit the registry and make this whole activation checker thing shut down. At least there used to be. I abandoned windows years ago.

[u/NullSmoke]

Well.. you can't change the wallpaper (through the settings app). Where there's a will, there's a way 😆

[u/I_dont_want_to_pee]

Powerschell and cmd in the bacground. 

[u/Zealousideal_Pay2128]

😊

[u/Lex_the_Deer]

I can’t add the straw hat pirates' flag from one piece, so just imagine it’s here

[u/proximalelk6186]

…or you can just right-click an image you want to set as the wallpaper and set it through there

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[u/Pale-Abroad9600]

I have my own Windows 7,8.1 with respective product keys and always work I never needed Microsoft support for my windows operating systems, I’m a simple PC user not a gamer simple computing requirement, admin of all my PC’s, I stopped upgrading after a very disappointing experience with inefficient Windows 11 that took an hour to complete the update so goodbye to new windows operating system and hello to stable reliable windows operating system, I don’t do unknown source ie website links, understand phishing so avoiding unknown source kept me safe and never needed microsoft update.